I have an old Acer Travelmate 630 (made in 2002) that doesn't have USB2 ports, only 2 usb1 ports.

Therefore I got a pcmia card (also several yers ago, around 2004/2005) that have 2 USB2 ports and 2 FW ports. Problem is - when I plug in any USB pen drives to the usb2 port of the pcmia card, it is not detected.

It doesn't matter if I insert the pcmia card before boot, or if I plug it in while Bodhi is running, same result.

Is this possible to fix ?

I'm not sure about the brand and model number of the PCMIA card is, I'm still a novice about Linux commands, but the lshw -businfo say this:

At the time the command was executed, the PCMIA card was mounted, but no usb pen drive plugged into it. And I use an old 4 port USB1 hub to reduce wear on the computers two only usb ports.

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I realized that I should had the usb pen drive connected to the PCMIA card in the first place. Well, the USB@6 have to be the USB port on the pcmia card, so here I go moving the usb drive to that usb port:

To find the devicename you can use the command ' dmesg | tail ' after you connected it. You should recognize it easily. If you have only one pendrive and your only hard drive (=sda) you can also use ' lsblk ' to get that info. The XY should be replaced with the correct drive letter and partition number, like sdb1

To find the type use ' sudo parted -l ' where the filesystem is mentioned in the line with the correct partition number.

The Mountpoint can be any empty directory, up to you. Most common is a dir in /media but you can make a dir in your ~/ as well. The latter will not be owned by root but by the user. The command to make a new dir is ' mkdir /path/to/newname '

Note: I've put quotes around commands for easy reading, don't use them in the terminal.

Enjoy,

Charles

PS. I'm not sure about your linux knowledge so I wrote this for a beginning user, nothing personal.

There is of coure one thing that I forgot to specify clear. When inserting a usb volume into the laptop native usb ports, it always works and it always appears in places with correct volume name. It is only when the usb drive is connected to the pcmia extension card, that it is not automatically mounted.

And my first post was a bit poor, because the codelines pasted from Terminal was done while the pen drive was inserted into another usb port and was working (auto mounted).

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Ok, there is more problems. The lsblk command doesn't reveal sdb1 (as expected).